Full Series Who will you blame for weak episode of "Star Wars Rebels"?

Ok. I am curious to hear opinions on this, but I am not sure how this goes with Star Wars fans.

So when "The Clone Wars" gave us weak / bad episodes or episodes that some of us thought were bad, the first "villains" to be pointed at were the writers or Lucas.
I never heard somebody blame the directors of the individual episodes or arcs. Are the writers really the ones to blame if an episode is poorly received?!

It is kinda different when reading comments about a movie, people tend to blame the director more than the writer / writers. The writers get away most of the times.
When I read comments about how much some do not like the new Star Trek movies then I "enjoy" a lot of "Cause J. J. Abrams sucks" or something like that (I am giving this as an example cause J.J. is now in charge of the Star Wars movies). Even with some videos like "Everything wrong with X-men: The Last Stand in...", the guy in the video mostly places the blame on the director Brett Ratner and not on the writers (one of which is Simon Kinberg).

If there are weak episodes in "Star Wars Rebels" then who will you point the finger at?


PS: Not trying to be negative, I am curious just which is the main reason for most fans. I am excited for the show and what it will offer.

 

It's the writers job to make an episode work with their writing, but if the writing is bad or otherwise negative in a way that directly hurts the episode, it is they who logically should logically get flack for a weak/bad episode (or rather just the writing itself since I don't really want to blame a writer directly for a subpar product). Still, a director is supposed to steer the writers in the right direction and approve the final scripts so a bad/lackluster episode is also his/her fault as well since he/she has approved the episode and is perfectly okay with the transformation from script into final episode, despite the fact that many of us watchers might think the final product turns out bad.

 

The responsibility isn't solely on one person. The writers are the ones conveying the message so I usually give them a fair amount of responsibility, I am a story teller that writes, myself. What you convey is just as important as how you convey it. The others I'd give most responsibility to is whoever approves the stories in the first place. Yet, some also rests on us fans for how we handle what we perceive is a weak story.

 

I'll blame Obama.

 

Other: DISNEY

 

As long as they don't get the Star Trek Voyager writers they should be all right. Voy was pure dreck by the time it was out of the first season, and rarely strayed from it. The absolute nadir of the horror was probably the infamous Warp Ten Lizards episode.

 

chose 'others' because 'no one' wasn't an option.

if I like something on TV or in books and movies, then that's it. I like it and I come back to it when I'm looking for something good to watch.

However, if I don't like it, I don't come back to it and move on. I don't care who may or may not be responsible for it.

 

Society.

 

Jar Jar

 

I will blame Darkslayer

 

Depends on the circumstances. TCW had the method of a lot of the ideas originating as a vague synopsis by Lucas given to writers to flesh out. Sometimes the synopsis was just so bad that I can't really fault the writers for being able to pull it off (e.g. D-squad; poison tea). Other times I think there's a solid idea, but that was executed by the writers poorly (e.g. Onderon).

I pretty much don't blame the director, unless the director had also written or at least came up with the idea. But I can't really think of an instance in TCW where bad directing is alone to blame for a bad episode of TCW.

If the writers are given more freedom, then they'll probably be the ones I blame the most. If Filoni fills Lucas' shoes and just starts dictating vague ideas to be developed into stories, then I'll likely blame him most of the time, unless - like Lucas - he sometimes gets a good idea that just isn't executed well, IMO.

 

BREAKING NEWS: Disney cancels Star Wars Rebels, cite "Insightful Forum Post"

 

Darn you Disney

 

On a serious note, I hope this show isn't treated like TCW sometimes is on this board, with Filoni getting the blame for things we knew from interviews specifically weren't his idea. But that's probably a very high hope.

 

They seem to be going for an ensemble thing, so I don't think we will get the obvious we're-supposed-to-see-the-story-through-this-character's-eyes thing like with Ahsoka again.

 

I voted producers on the theory that the writers won't be making the big decisions on a show like this. Writers will be to blame for bad dialogue, but not story or character issues.

 

Canada.

 

Lucas

 

Does that include bringing back Plo Koon? He is a Jedi Master, and we never saw him die

 

Dave Filoni

 

NZ.

 

Not Filoni, that other guy, who's not Filoni. Yeah, THAT guy! That guy sucks.